I just wanted to give a quick summary of my experience. I have been watching the Linux space for a couple of years now and have been dual-booting, but only recently has it suddenly become very viable for me. This is from the perspective of someone who has an Nvidia GPU, so keep that in mind. Once the 555 driver was released with decent Wayland and explicit sync support, I have been free from Microsoft. I do play a decent variety of games, and the list of unsupported titles is very small. I was surprised to find just how good Proton is. One game that really made me appreciate Proton on a new level was Gray Zone Warfare, a brand-new UE5 open-world multiplayer game that isn’t optimized well in general, but ran on release day. I’ve grown to love the terminal, managing my packages, open-source and free software, etc. It’s everything I’ve always wanted Windows to be.
There are a few issues still for me:
- VR support needs improvement. (Valve Deckard?
) - HDR can be done but needs work. (On any operating system honestly)
- Multi-monitor VRR is still not supported on Nvidia… Hopefully soon. I currently get around this by using an alias to disable my other monitors when I want to game with VRR.
- Lack of some feature parity mostly on the Nvidia side (Frame Gen, RTX HDR, NVCP), but some on AMD like with AFMF or Adrenaline.
So to anybody on the fence, I encourage you to give it another shot. I’ve had good experiences with Arch and derivatives like CachyOS/EndeavourOS. I genuinely think for most people they can find alternatives to the software they use, Photoshop even runs under Wine. And there are always VMs.
